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This mid-month issue is a bit late in coming. Inexcusable I know but I beg your indulgence.

To you new subscribers, welcome to the summer of 2003 and what promises to be the most enriching season yet of Higher Activation.

There has been much going on however. For one, my web host has undergone a major upgrade and clients have been inquiring as to what it all means. It's all good, I assure you and I'll make a brief mention below of what has changed and more importantly, what hasn't.

There have also been changes to the cooperative marketing group of which I'm a proud member. My network of partners and I have been coming to a fuller understanding of what these changes will mean and its crystal clear that this organization has just made online business proficiency even more attainable and massive success even more simple.

A full review of the cooperative (or network) marketing group which has so impressed me for almost 2 years now will be found on the main site and in upcoming issues of Higher Activation later this summer. Realizing and expanding your potential has never meshed so seamlessly with making money until now.

Another recent development is the return to prominence of Mike Brescia's Think Right Now line of personal growth products.

The products haven't changed and are still some of the most potent self improvement aids available. But the marketing pieces had grown a bit stale and the support staff seemed to be missing in action.

Well Mike had been sidelined by injury but is now back with a vengeance. He's even contracted a new marketing director and has assembled a team dedicated to making your personal development their mission.

The guest article in this issue was written by Mike Brescia and within the next couple of weeks, I'll send you a letter telling more about the Think Right Now program. Keep your eye on your inbox for it.
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Article: The Vacuum State

I learned back in the seventies about the vacuum state and zero point energy. Some kind of experiment where molten metal was cooled by pouring on a rapidly spinning thing. The metal crystallized into hyper-dimensional patterns which somehow indicated to these scientists and mathematicians that zero point energy had been encountered.

I've always enjoyed interpreting discoveries in physics as metaphors of personal development. The vacuum state and its zero point energy seemed to have immediate applicability.

The wisdom of the heavens was given to the people of the Earth completely in tact. One legend has it that after man's "fall", the Angels passed it on to the children of the Earth so that they may again overcome the earth plane and re-ascend to the heavens. When a portion of the wisdom leaked out, greater spiritual and mystical knowledge was obtained than had ever been exhibited on Earth and the greatest civilizations in the history of mankind were established.

The things that we do in our lives and the things that we feel in our bodies, our feeling world is the basis of an internal technology.

We open ourselves to a more densely packed stream of information when we acknowledge and cultivate our "marginalized" states.

Take the various brain wave states we all experience throughout the day. We drift into and out of sleep, various degrees of relaxation, involvement in a T.V. program... and then induce these consciously (or remain conscious as these states transpire). Thus we open ourselves to entirely new perceptions.

Are we re-discovering ancient technologies of mind?

The maintenance and use of alpha, theta, dreamworking with delta etc., all contribute to the establishment of vacuum states throughout a human life.

Its also a matter of appreciating altered relationships with our minds.

"Simple" states like familiarity and recognition gain importance. Peripheral modes of consciousness gain in prominence. Modes experienced by all but paid little attention in their own right.

Instant alteration of mental states (now called NLP, etc)... do they fare better than good 'ol fashioned ritual magic?

Look, colored candles, selected scents, intoning chants at precise frequencies all while breathing in precise rhythms and enthusiastically emblazoning the "environment" with energetically imagined symbols... at mathematically determined phases of the moon's cycle. Could there be any doubt that such practices so deeply affect our "other-than-conscious" minds that the entire course of personal evolution is influenced? Tools for making quantum leaps in ourselves?

Could psycho therapeutic "clearing" processes be any more effective than banishing rituals of old? More intellectually pleasing perhaps but I doubt if any more thorough.

And could all these be mere refinements for better or worse, of "hand me down" technologies for interaction with the zero-point energies of the vacuum state? Um?

A keen sense of observation allows you to experience "anticipation" to good effect. But this degree of (self) observation requires an energy of consciousness inaccessible to most humans. Encounters with the "zero-point" however let you realize yourself as the holographic "fractal" which science knows to manifest as "quanta".

Experience the familiar and commonplace in a new way... spread the use of altered states throughout our lives. Become a "quasi-periodic" or "strange" attractor for the energies which all of humanity is awaiting the release.

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The Difference Between Success and Failure Is 'This' Much

- By Mike Brescia

(c) Mike Brescia - All rights reserved

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In our back yard, about 15 feet from the house is a large, gorgeous maple tree

In the summer, it's home to a number of birds.

Last year, at the end of a long branch, which extends to within 7 feet of our upstairs bathroom window, some robins built a nest, where they lived all summer until the weather got too cold.

Both our cats just lay in the windowsill for hours all summer watching the birds come and go less than 7 feet from their window perch.

Now keep in mind that this winter was absolutely brutal.

14 feet of snow. Wind that blew like none that I can ever recall. Never as often and as hard as this year, it seemed. It was just miserable from mid October until April.

Yet this bird's nest, sitting on a long branch wide open to the chilling, hammering winds and cold that snaps electrical wires like tooth picks, stayed right there.

Every day, I'd look out at this nest and there it was, gripping that branch...

And I've got to believe that the robins that built the nest were no smarter or more skilled in nest building than any of the robins in my neighbors trees.

They simply didn't want their home to fall apart no matter what. So they build it to withstand the worst possible conditions.

No short cuts.

No excuses.

Tell me, what if you were to take every little task you do today, and do your absolute best?

What if you were to sit there with that software UNTIL you mastered it?

What if you gave your all to every customer or prospective customer?

How much more effort would it take to be the best husband, wife or significant other than you normally put in?

What would it really take to avoid eating beyond being comfortably full?

To finish your homework and then go for another 30 minutes for good measure?

You know, the difference between failure, moderate success, an OK marriage, an undistinguished career and a raging success in any one of those areas is usually miniscule.

It's not that much more work.

Often it's hardly any real effort at all.

Every single day I get emails from people who have given up hope of ever being really happy and satisfied in life.

'I'm beyond help.' 'I'm happy that you're doing this work for other people... Too bad it can't help me.'

They read the emails. They may even buy the tapes, and either don't listen to them as prescribed, or when changes do begin either with positive progress or with negative tension created by the rapid changes happening, they quit because the change is uncomfortable at first.

'Whoa! That's not me! Who am I kidding? Better slow down.'

The bottom line is, change is always wanted on some level but hardly ever completely enjoyable at first.

If there is one thing that you MUST beat into your head every day like a mantra is that success at anything is simple.

GOD, it's so simple!

It's just a matter of repetition of little thoughts and little actions.

For example, to allow yourself to do shoddy work once and then again is to create momentum. A third time is like an avalanche...

Hard to stop it. The fourth time is virtually guaranteed.

When the brownies or chips and soda make it into the shopping cart every week, that's it.

Run past that aisle. Achieve a little success. Get a little momentum going the other way.

When the sitcom wins out consistently over the homework or baseball practice in the back yard, then you are creating a rotten habit, which develops a character.

Done long enough, and that becomes who you are...

But thank God that with just a little effort we can change those things by making only slight direction changes.

The nest in my back yard is now housing a new family of robins who didn't have to do a thing. They just moved in. All the work was done already. They just hung a few pictures, threw out a 'Welcome' mat and called it home.

And once you change the momentum of any downward slide you may be in, it's deceptively simple to stop the slide, make a few right decisions and your entire destiny can change.

If I was to get in my Expedition right now and drive due west for just four days, I'd be in North Bend, Oregon.

But if I was pointing only about 5 degrees to the south, in the same four days I'd end up in Los Angeles, California... about 960 miles away.

Now hold you thumb and fore finger about an eighth of an inch apart.

Go ahead. Do it.

You see, most of the time the difference between horrible, devastating failure and massive, glorious success is only that far apart.

In the next four days, will you have chosen to stay on course?

Keep reminding yourself of how important each hour and each decision is. Do that every hour today, and I guarantee that no matter what doesn't go right, you won't be too terribly bothered by it.

Isn't THAT the direction you wanted to go in today?

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